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No. 695.758. Patentad Mar. a, !902.

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No. !595,758. Patented Mar. l8, !902.

W. C. McELHENY.

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NVILLIAM C. MCELIIENY, OF PITTSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA.

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SPECIFECATION formng part of Letters Patent No. 695,'758, dated March 18, 1902.

Application filed December 4, 1901. Serial No. 84,688. (No model.)

To all whom 't may concern:

Beit known thatLWILLIAM C. MCELHENY,

- a citizen of the United States,residing at Pittsburg, in the County of Allegheny and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Boats, of which improvement the following is a specifieation.

This invention relates to new and useful improvements in beats.

The invention relates particularly to that class of boats known as scows or fiatboats, as enployed to receive and transport sand, gravel, ores, coals, &0.; and the object thereof is to provide means therein' which will facilitate unloading thereof.

In the accompanying drawings I have illustrated a boat constructed in accordance to my invention and have for the purpose of fully presenting its advantages illustrated the same as in the act of being unloaded, in which drawings Figure I is a perspective view of said boat. Fig. Il is a transverse sectional view through said boat. Fig. III is a side view showing the same in the act of being unloaded by a nechanical apparatus. Fig. IV is an enlarged end View ofa portion of the unloading apparatus and boat.

Referring to said views, particularly Figs. I and II, it will be observed that the boatbody proper is composed of the flat bottom l, parallel sides 2, and inclined ends 3. The inner portion of the boat-body is provided With a central longitudinal passage-way A, formed by the parallel side walls 4. From the upper portion of the boat side walls proper to the upper edges of said passageway walls are formed the inclined walls 5, which walls in practice will be approximately at an angle of forty-five degrees or at such angle as to insure the material freighted falling into said passage-way from said walls.

As the boat is particularly adapted for use in connection with mechanical unloading apparatuses of fioating or stationary character, I have at Figs. III and IV illustrated one of the latter character in the act of unloading the boat and is accomplished in the following manner: The loaded boat is secured alongside of the unloading apparatus and the traveliug elevator-leg (3 lowered into one end thereof, as shown by dotted lines of boat at Fig. III, by means ot' a suitable loist 7. As the material is elevated from the passageway to the chute 8 it is discharged from the latter onto a traveling eonveyer 9 or other apparatus to the point of delivery. As the unloading proceeds and the passageway becomes cleared the material of its own gravity falls down the inelined walls into said passage-way, where it is gathered up by the elevator, and as the clearing of such passage- Way proceeds the boat is drawn forward until the unloading is completed.

With this Construction of boat it will be readily apparent that the material will of its own gravity be displaced or fall into the passage-Way to the elevator as fast as the latter is capable of removing the same. It is also apparent that the body of the boat may beot' other form than that shown and yet have its interier constructed in accordance to my invention.

Having thus fully shown and described my invention, what I claim as new,-and desire to secure by Letters Patenta, is

l. The combination with an open fiat-bottomed boat having external vertical sides and inclined ends, of supplemental internal side walls inclining toward the bottom and thence extending vertically to said bottom,said walls forming one eontinuous passage or receptacle from one end of the boat to the other.

2. The combination with an open flat-bottom ed boat having external vertical sides and inclined ends, of supplemental internal side walls inclining from the upper edge toward the bottom and thence extending vertically to said bottom, said walls forming one continuous passage or receptacle from one end of the boat to the other.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto signed my name in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

WILLIAM C. MCELHENY.

In presence of RICHARD S. HARRISON, CLARENCE A. WILLIAMS. 

